Automatic registering-machine



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AUTOMATIC REGISTERING-MACHENE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,120, dated October27, 1885.

Application filed June 1, 1885. Serial No. 167,322.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. BARBER, of \Vard, in the county of\Vashington and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Automatic Registering-Machines, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relatesto a machine for enumerating or registeringautomatically; and it consists in the mechanism hereinafter described,constructed and arranged so that the enumerating-tape may be transferredback and forth upon separate and independent drums, first upon one drumand then upon the other, and transferringrollers having an intermittentmovement simultaneously first in one direction and then in the oppositedirection to carry the enumerating-tape between them a certain fixed orgiven distance at every intermittent movement thereof forward or backindependent of the drums to receive and hold the tape thereon.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section through the line :0 00 of Fig. 2of a box to receive and hold the operating mechanism; 2, a crosssectionof the box, and showing a top view of the mechanism therein, togetherwith a fragment of the enumerating or registering tape; Fig. 3, a frontview representing the open space in the box before which the numbers onthe tape are presented consecutively one after another to be read, andthe slide for obscuring alternately the columns of figures thereon,first one column and then the other, as may be required.

A in the accompanying drawings represents a suitable box, in which theenumerating or registering mechanism is inelosed and operates.

B B are two drums mounted upon shafts G 0, supported in suitablebearings in the box A, to receive and hold an enumerating-tape, O, whichis to be wound alternately thereon first upon one drum and then upon theother. Around the shafts of these drums B B are coiled springs D D, oneend of each spring being fastened to the shaft, which it surrounds, andthe other end fastened to the box A, as

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shown, so that as the enumerating-tape O is drawn from the drum uponwhich it is wound the opposite or corresponding drum will continue towind it thereon until the whole length of the tape is transferred fromone drum to the other, in which operation the coiled springs D D serveto revolve the drums alternately, the springs being wound around theshafts by the movement of the enumeratingtape back and forth.

In order that the enumerating-tape 0 shall move intermittingly a certainfixed or given distance at each movement independently of the drums B B,to present the numbers thereon consecutively and regularly one afteranother before an opening, G, Fig. 3, in the side of the box A, it ispassed between two intermediate transfenrollers, H H, whose surfaces maybe covered with rubber V, or other suitable material to obtainsufficient friction to embrace and move the tape positively a givendistance without slipping and without injury thereto.

In order to overcome the tension exerted by the springs D at any stageof the transfer of the tape from one drum to the other, the tape is tobe held between the transfer-rollers H H with suffieient frictionalforce so that they will not be moved by the action of the springs D, andwill only move when a force beyond that of the springs be exerted bymeans of the pawls J J to overcome the friction of he rollers. Ifpreferred, a double checlcpawl may be employed to prevent any retrogrademovement of the transfer rollers. This double cheek-pawl may beconstructed and arranged to operate the same as the double push-andpullpawls J J, and shifted by hand to take into the notched wheelsalternately to permit the transfer-rollers to revolve back and forth andto operate in unison with the pawls J J to hold the rollers H H, so thatthey shall revolve only when moved by the pawls J J, and to obtain therequired intermittent movement of the enumerating-tape thesetransfer-rollers H H are provided with ratchetwheels I I, secured totheir shafts, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and are operated byadouble pawl, J J, first in one direction and then in the op positedirection thereto.

The double pawl J J is pivoted at m to a vibrating bar, K, in suchrelative position to the transfer-rollers H H that the upper pushpawl,J, which is heavier than thelower hooked pawl, J, will remain by its ownweight engaged with the upper ratchet-wheel, and by its action move thetape in one direction, and when it is desired to reverse the directionof the movement of the tape the upper pawl, J, is disengaged by hand orin any other convenient manner from its ratchet-wheel and, passing beyond a perpendicular with its pivot at, will drop back, and the hookedpawl J will be held engaged with the ratchet-wheel of the lower roller,thus reversing the direction of the movement of the enumerating-tape, asrequired. From the opposite end of this vibrating bar K extends aconnectingrod, L, downward to connect with the platform of aweighing-scale by which to vibrate the bar intermittingly to impart acorrespondingly intermittent move ment to the transfer-rollers H Hthrough the pawls J J and ratchet-wheels I.

Upon one side of this enumerating-tape 0 two columns of figures arearranged to enumerate the number of bags or other articles be ingweighcd,one after another. These columns commencing with figure l,arearranged to enumerate in opposite directions side by side, so that asthe tape is transferred alternately from one drum to the other thecolumns may be read alternately first one column and then the other,according to the direction of movement of the tape; and to prevent errorwhich might occur by reading the wrong column, a slide, N, over theopening G, Fig. 3, slides back and forth to obscure, alternately, firstone column and then the other, as the movement of the tape requires.

In order to present the tape 0 over the opening G in the box when woundupon the upper drum, and direct it to the lower drum, to be woundthereon, a loose guide-roller, \V, is arranged, over which the tape ispassed from the transfer-rollers H H, and thence to the lower drum, asshown. Two pins, 0 O, are placed one above and one below the vibratingbar K, so as to restrict its movement up and down in order that theratchet-wheels shall be turned a certain given distance at eachvibration of the bar K by means of the pawls thereon.

The operation of this enumerating mechanism may be described briefly asfollows: The rod L being connected with a weighing-scale, and as eachbag or article is placed thereon and weighed the bar K is vibrated thedis tance between the stop-pins O 0, so as to move the ratchet-wheelsone or more notches, asthe case may be, to revolve the transfer-rollersH H and carry the tape forward, so as to present the numbers thereonconsecutively, one after another, to the opening G, to be read, and asthe tape is drawn intermittingly from one drum by means of thetransfer-rollers H H, the opposite drum, by means of its spring, willtake up the tape as it is presented until its entire length has beentransferred from one drum to the other. The double pawl is now changedfrom one ratchet-wheel to the other, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1,thereby reversing the movement of the tape, which commences to betransferred back to the empty drum, and so on the operation oftransferring the tape from one drum to the other may be repeated atpleasure. At each transfer of the tape the slide N is also shifted, soas to expose the column of numbers to correspond with the direction ofmovement of the tape.

It is evident that this enumerating mechanism may be operated inconnection with any of the well-known bagging and weighing devices,threshing or winnowing machines, or grainelevators, without additionalcontrivances and without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In amachine for enumerating or registcn ing, in combination with thetape 0 and drums B B, the intermediate transfer-rollers, H H,ratchet-wheels I I thereon, pawls J J, and lever K, whereby articles maybe enumerated consecutively, one after the other, as described.

2. In a machine for enumerating or registering, in combination with thetape 0, having two columns of numerals thereon, and drums B B, theintermediate transfer-rollers, H H, ratchet wheels I I, secured thereto,pawls J J, and lever K,whereby thetape may be transferred alternatelyfrom one drum to the other, as described.

3. In a machine for enumerating or registering, in combination with thetape 0, having two columns of numerals thereon, drums B B, intermediatetransfer-rollers, H H, and ratchet-wheels I I, the pawls J J and leverK, to reverse the movement of the tape 0, so as to enumerate in bothdirections, constructed and arranged as described.

XVILLIAM H. BARBER.

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A. WARD, O. D. \VARD.

